Whilst photographing wallaby grass seeds for the National Herbarium of Victoria. I felt like being creative with a couple of species for my own portfolio using new and old methods of photomacrography the first species was Rytidosperma monticola I took this with a reversed 36mm movie camera lens at f/5.6 on 13mm of extension with my canon 7d as a stack of 100 images. When turned upside down the stacked image reminded me of a new guinea man dressed in traditional costume.
The other species Rytidosperma caespitosum I took with my 4x5inch view camera using a 121mm angulon lens at a marked aperture of f/45 on 570mm of bellows extension yielding a magnification of 3.7X on the film. I took both the dorsal and ventral views of the seed on different sheets of film. I then scanned and processed the negatives in photoshop.
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Hi Saul,Saul wrote:1st one is very nice. Can we see bigger photo ?
Please find below a larger file of the image (I've cropped it so that you see more details within the allowed size on this site) as requested.
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Thanks Saul- I was pleased with the results and used the same system for all the grass seeds that I had to photograph - swapping to a reversed 13mm movie camera lens at f/4 with no extension when I required a higher magnification.
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Thanks Jorgen,JH wrote:Nice picture
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I like your pollen shots on your website. What technique did you use for the "Hippeastrum flower pollen" photo?
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Thanks Peterpeterkinchington wrote: I like your pollen shots on your website. What technique did you use for the "Hippeastrum flower pollen" photo?
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I used a Nikon plan apo 40x BD 210 mm lens, dark field, and a GIF-filter (green).
Link to thread at this forum the BW picture is in the middle of the page.
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... hp?t=36167
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Jorgen thanks for the link.
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Thanks Rane - I see you are from Finland. A girlfriend of mine was Finnish - she was beautiful.
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